• Hello there guest and Welcome to The #1 Classic Mustang forum!
    To gain full access you must Register. Registration is free and it takes only a few moments to complete.
    Already a member? Login here then!

My daughter's team is not very good

FordDude

FordDude

Well-Known Dude
Staff member
Moderator
My daughter started playing water polo as a freshman in high school. She is now a sophomore in college and this is her second season with the team. I am very happy with the dedication that she puts into it. Practice starts at 5am which means they are in the water at 4:50am, 4:51am and you are late. She chose CSUSB because they had water polo. Her major is KINESIOLOGY and wants to be a physical therapist. I am trying to keep the background info as brief as possible.

OK time for the question. Last season they were 4-33, yes just 4 wins. We started off on Saturday with 3 more losses. However, those teams last year were ranked 7th, 16th and 19th nationally that we played. Should I say anything to her, like you guys really suck, offer encouragement, or just attend as many games as I can and not say anything.

fd
 
The joys of parenthood.
Only a select few are the best, the rest are "the rest".
If she trains early and often, she must be enjoying it, so keep encouraging her and supporting her.
The problem is obviously someone else's child.
if it was my daughter, I would watch with pride and then buy her some new jewelry or a car.
 
Here's what I'd do. Take a "Alka Seltzer" and break it into 4 quarters. Coat each of these in a layer of wax. About two days before the game, start a rumor that one of your girls teammates was bitten by a Rabid dog. Just before the game hand these out. Then when in the game in a critical situation, signal the girl to bite through the wax, growl a little and release the Alka Seltzer. Once the opposing team see's the foaming mouths, they will quickly forget about winning the game, and when their dripping butts have ran to their bus, most likely they will forfeit the game. Problem solved. :beer
 
lmao at Evil!


My solution would be to berate your daughter and her team for their lack of skills, preferably DURING matches! Just maybe, you being flogged by the other parents and banned from future attendance at said matches will be the catalyst they need to get better.
 
Do they lose because their horses drown first? I'd buy horsey scuba gear to take an advantage.
Well at least when she graduates and gets a job she won't complain about getting up at 5am to go into work dry....
Jon
 
http://voices.yahoo.com/what-would-lanc ... html?cat=7

Lance Armstrong certainly helped to raise the awareness of cycling as a sport in America, but even at the height of his popularity, he was still no more of a merchandising cash cow than a second baseman on a non-championship team hitting .292 with 20 homers and 86 RBI.

The point?

If you are going to cheat in a sport, why do so in a low-profile sport like cycling where the monetary return (at least at the time he started) seemed to be so puny relative to the risk of exposure? Yeah, okay, Barry Bonds may never make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame (although it seems quite unlikely that he will continue to be spurned posthumously), but at least he got while the getting was good. The price for a spot in Cooperstown surely must be well below the millions and millions that Bond made off his Amazing Colossal Man box office peak. On the other hand, if you cheat in a low-profile sport, will anybody really care unless you overplay your hand like Armstrong and his multiple Tours De France?

Water Polo

If there is a sport that Americans by the hundreds of millions care about even less than riding a bike up and down the hills and valleys of France, it's water polo. Which is great if you are a water polo player who really wants to set your sport on fire. Water polo is already down there sharing the muck with hockey when it comes to dirty pool, so if you have acting skills to go with your ability to tread water, cheating your way to prominence is a breeze. Just use your underwater hand and arm as a hook hidden beneath the surface of the playing field grab the opponent surreptitiously by the waist and quickly shove him out of your way when you've got the ball in your other hand.

The acting ability comines in handy by making it seem like you are just using playing good old-fashioned Charlie Hustle instead of dirty dog Pete Rose. This water polo cheat requires no drugs or injections or horse pills, all the dirty work is accomplished out of view and the result is placing your opponent between the rock of allowing you free access to get closer to the goal or the hard place of risking a foul by trying to climb right up your back...
Click to expand...

There is also a more direct Sanborn'esk approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IdUKbLSg
 
"FordDude" said:
OK time for the question. Last season they were 4-33, yes just 4 wins. We started off on Saturday with 3 more losses. However, those teams last year were ranked 7th, 16th and 19th nationally that we played. Should I say anything to her, like you guys really suck, offer encouragement, or just attend as many games as I can and not say anything.

fd
Click to expand...

Man, have we been on a few baseball teams like that.

Last spring, we had a team where half the roster had no business on the ball field. We had a half a roster that the best you could hope for is they got walked or hit by a stray pitch.

My guess is your daughter already knows the team sucks so no sense rubbing it in. When my boys have been on those type of teams they were painfully aware the team sucked.

Generally, when we've been on those teams I try to encourage my boys with things like "you had a great hit in the third inning" or "what an out you made in the second". One of my boys catches and it was not unusual for the opposing coach to come up after a game and tell him great job behind the plate. If they pitched that game I kept stats and told them they threw a high percentage of strikes...not their fault if the defense couldn't back them up and make routine outs.

We were debating whether to be on the select team and get tons of playing time or the elite team and be challenged this season but decided yesterday to go elite. They could have stayed select and been the big fish in a little pond but they wanted to be challenged and that select roster is going to have a LONG season. There are a few decent players on the select roster but enough with a lack of talent that they won't win much. (for the record the levels of play in baseball in order of skill level are: metro, select, elite, premier.)
 
There is also a more direct Sanborn'esk approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IdUKbLSg
Click to expand...

I am going to have show her that youtube. :nut

Yes I do not say anything to her, if I do it is about something positive that she did in the game mostly. Bad pass or getting a ball stolen, yes I do tell her that she needs to work on her "basic skills". Just wanted to vent here a little. Thanks for the responses.

fd
 
"dodgestang" said:
http://voices.yahoo.com/what-would-lanc ... html?cat=7

There is also a more direct Sanborn'esk approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IdUKbLSg
Click to expand...

LOL!

We've played with a few kids in the past where I wanted to smack their parents like that and tell them to take the blinders off about their kid.

We had one a few seasons ago that was scared of the ball...wouldn't get under a pop fly to save his life trying to catch it out to the side and would literally start backing up and too the side when in full catcher's gear.

But to listen to his dad...he was the star player and he flat denied the kid was scared of the ball and would get mad when the coach wouldn't let him play catcher :wtf

On the plus, found out last night my boys can more than hang with the elite roster so glad we made the move. As you move up, you tend to get rid of the kids that have no business on the field. Jeff can play first with their best guy plus looks better than their previously back up first base guy and Ben hit a ball all the way to the fence in center field after looking good on third base so they'll be more than fine on that roster.
 
I wouln't worry too much. You aren't going to have much time to watch anymore since you were roped into being a moderatior. Just shut up n smile...
 
Let's see..... taking the focus off of your daughter..... there's a pool full of college girls. Hmm, what to do?

"just attend as many games as I can and not say anything"

... would be my choice. Sounds like a win/win situation regardless of what the final score is.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top